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(No Model.)

A. G. HOHENSTEIN.

PAPER BOX.

No. 309,052. Patented Dec. 9,1884,

l s limited I ARCHIE G. HOHENSTE EN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO BENTON NICHOLS & CO., OF SAME PLACE.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming ptrt of Letters Patent No. 309,052, dated December 9, 1884:.

' App ication filed October 27, 1884. (No model.)

ToaZZ whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, ARCHIE G. HOHEN- STEIN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Paper Boxes; and I do hereby-declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of refercnee marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent,

Figure 1, a perspective View of the box complete; Fig. 2, aperspeetivc'vicw, both ends open; Fig. 3', a perspcctivie- View showing the flaps c f turned inward Fi g. a, the blank from which the box is made; Fig. .3, a vertical section showing both ends closed; 6, a modification.

This invention relates to an improvement ends to extend over the end of the box as a cover,with a tuck to be introduced within the box and against the front. In this class of boxes two sides are provided with flaps at the open end, which may be turned inward to form an auxiliary closing, and the flap turned in between the front and the corresponding edge of the side flaps. In the use of these boxes for packing small art s -like screws, tacks, 85c. considerable d1: chlty is experienced in introducing the of the covered end after the'box is filled, the contents interfering with such introduction. To obviate this difficulty the front of the box has been doubled by various cuts, stats to form a pocket into which the flap might be tucked; but this doubling of the front requires an area equal to the extent of the front.

The object of my invention is to double the front of the box near its end, or ends for the convenient introduction of the flap, but without doubling the entire front; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described,

and more particularly recited in the claims. The blank is cut in outline, as seen in Fig. 4, solid lines on the blank indicating full cuts, broken lines .the scores upon which the blank is bent. On this blank, A is the back of the box, from one end of which is an cxtension,l3, and from the opposite end alike extension, C, the first to form the top of the box and the other, C, to form the bottom. Each is provided with a tuck, respectively, b c.

D is the front, which in size corresponds to the back A. Between the front and back A D is the one side,E, and adjoining the front is the second side, F. A flap, (1, is provided at one edge of the back, or to the corresponding side, F, which, when the blank is bent into shape, may be secured to the other part, and thus form the body of the box. The two sides E F terminate, respectively, in flaps c and f. So

far the blank is of common and well-known out. ()n the corresponding sides of the two flaps e f, I form an extension, g, on the flap 6, and h on the flap f. The flaps and the extensions may be in length only so as to meet at the center of the box when turned inward, as seen in Fig. 6, but, as shown in 4, the flaps e are made a little more than half the width of the box-that is, so as to extend more than half across the top, as seen in Fig. 3. At the outer end a notch, i, is out between the flap E and its extension g, the notch extending toward the side to which the flap is attached. By preference both ends are cut alike; but the extensions 9 h may be omitted from the bottom, if desired. The box is set up as seen in Fig. 2. To form the bottom the flaps e f are turned inward, first turning the extensions 72. g in side of the front, as seen in Fig. 5, and then the bottom C is turned over and the tuck inserted between the extensions 9 h and the front D. The box filled, theflaps cf at the opposite or top end are turned inward, bringing the two extensions 9 h inside the front, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 5. Then the cover B is turned down over the flaps c f and the tuck b introduced between the extensions 9 h and the front, as seen in Fig. In turning the two extensions 9 h inward the extension 9 passes inside the extension h, and so that the flap f will pass into the notch i, as seen. in Fig.

3, thus interlocking the flaps e f, to insure their retaining their proper position. There is no difficulty in introducing the extensions g h into the box, as the box may be turned to 5 throw the contents from the front onto the back, and leave a space for the introduction of those extensions; then the box righted, the contents will return back against the extensions h, and leave the pocket between the ex.- tcnsions and the front 11 ninterrnpted to receive the tuck. If the'llaps of be of the usual form and length, so as to meet at the center, as seen in Fig. (i, the extensions are the same. The broken line 8 in Fig. 4. indicates the length of the flaps 1E 16, and of the extensions when so cut as to meet at the center, and as seen in Fig. (i.

The extensions 1 It may be made upon corresponding flaps or boxes, having the other parts differently cut from those which I have illustrated, the drawings showing one of the most common constructions of this class of boxes: I do not, therefore, wish to be understood as limiting my improvement to this particular form of box.

vI claim 1. In a paper box made from asingle piece of paper, consisting of a back, front, and two sides, the-back having an extension to form a 0 cover, B, and tuck b, the two sides at the cover end provided, respectively, with flaps e f, the said flaps constructed with extensions /2 Y arranged to be tarned inward with the flaps, and so as to lie against the front, and with the front form a 0 "et tc receive the tuck of the cover, substan 1 y described;

2. In a paper sox made from asingle piece of paper, consisting of a back, front, and twosides, the back having an extension to form a cover, B, and tuck b, the two sides at the cover end-provided, respectively, with flaps e f,

the said flaps constructed with extensions gh,

arranged to be turned inward with the flaps, and so as to lie against the front, and with the front form a pocket to receive the tuck of the cover, one of the flaps and extensions con structed witha notch, i, to interlock with the other flap and its extension, substantially as described.

3. Theherein-described paper box, consisting of the back A, front D, two sides, E F, the closing-covers B C, terminating 'in' their tucks b c, the two sides E F constructed with flaps at each end, respectively, ef,'the said flaps provided, respectively, with extensions 5 5 g h, turned inward with the flaps, and so as toformapocket upon the side against which they are turned, and so as to receive the tuck,

substantial-lyas described. a

Anernn e. HOHENSTEIN.

Witnesses: JOHN E. Exnnn, Jos. C. EARLE. 

